Akismet Invalid Key
I upgraded the Akismet anti-spam plugin on my site earlier only to be greeted with a message stating “your akismet key is invalid”. Turns out that despite having my personal key since early 2006, I had to re-request the key on the Akismet site. I noticed when I did this that I was encouraged to pay a subscription fee of my choosing.
While I do completely understand the need to monetise services like this, I really didn’t like the underhand way in which I was forced onto that page. Plugin upgrades shouldn’t render a previously issued key invalid and certainly shouldn’t force you onto a site where payment is solicited to proceed (even if you can side-step this). As a plugin author, if I published a plugin into the WordPress repository that did this kind of thing I’d likely have my entry deactivated for violation of terms of service – smacks of double standards to me
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